26. وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحآ وَإِبْرَاهِیمَ وَجَعَلْنَا فِی ذُرِّیَّتِهِمَا النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْکِتَابَ فَمِنْهُمْ مُهْتَدٍ وَکَثِیرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ ƒ
26-WE SENT NOAH AND ABRAHAM AND BESTOWED ON THEIR OFFSPRINGS PROPHETHOOD AND BOOK (SCRIPTURES) SOME OF THEM ARE GUIDED AND MANY OF THEM ARE SINNERS.
27. ثُمَّ قَفَّیْنَا عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ بِرُسُلِنَا وَقَفَّیْنَا بِعِیسَى ابْنِ مَرْیَمَ وَآتَیْنَاهُ الاِْنجِیلَ وَجَعَلْنَا فِی قُلُوبِ الَّذِینَ اتَّبَعُوهُ رَأْفَةً وَرَحْمَةً وَرَهْبَانِیَّةً ابْتَدَعُوهَا مَا کَتَبْنَاهَا عَلَیْهِمْ إِلاَّ ابْتِغَاءَ رِضْوَانِ اللهِ فَمَا رَعَوْهَا حَقَّ رِعَایَتِهَا فَآتَیْنَا الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا مِنْهُمْ أَجْرَهُمْ وَکَثِیرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ ƒ
27-THEN AFTER THEM WE SENT OUR OTHER APOSTLES; AND AFTER THEM WE SENT JESUS THE SON OF MARY, AND GAVE HIM THE GOSPEL, AND WE SET KINDNESS AND MERCY IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOWED HIM, AS TO THE MONASTICISM, THEY INVENTED IT, WE DID NOT PRESCRIBE IT FOR THEM, THEY WERE SEEKING THE PLEASURE OF ALLAH, BUT DID NOT OBSERVE IT AS THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE, SO WE GAVE THOSE OF THEM WHO BELEIVED THEIR DUE REWARD, AND A LOT OF THEM WERE SINNERS.